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Article #3Re: chown and chmod u+s: Security Violation - why ?
From: Markus Kuhn
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 23:25
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 23:25
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Submitted-by: mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn) toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene) writes: >Short question: Why is it considered a security risk when people give away >their own files (by chown'ing them to someone else) ... That's a nice trick to use other people's quotas and doing other more silly things ... Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Science student -=-=- University of Erlangen, Germany Internet: mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de | X.500 entry available ------------------ ISO? Nicht immer. Aber immer vfter! ------------------- Volume-Number: Volume 28, Number 71
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!uunet!not-for-mail From: mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: chown and chmod u+s: Security Violation - why ? Date: 3 Aug 1992 16:25:28 -0700 Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany Lines: 18 Sender: sef@ftp.UU.NET Approved: sef@ftp.uucp (Moderator, Sean Eric Fagan) Message-ID: <15kf98INN40v@ftp.UU.NET> References: <15ibqsINNc3a@ftp.UU.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.uu.net X-Submissions: std-unix@uunet.uu.net